Tools for the transcription of Portuguese prosody
- Course
- Functions of prosody
- Prominence
- Chunking
- Modality
- Beyond Intonation
- Word stress
- Rhythm
- Prosodic variation
- Training
Prosodic variation
Recent studies have found three main dimensions of variation across Portuguese varieties: the inventory of nuclear contours (i.e., with nuclear configurations varying in form and/or meaning), intonational phrasing (i.e., with varying phrasing preferences) and pitch accent distribution. The first two dimensions have already been touched upon in previous sections. This final section is thus devoted to pitch accent distribution (PAD).
PAD relates to the way pitch accents (and tonal events in general) are distributed within utterances, and this reflects the prosodic domain that regulates such distribution. In some Brazilian varieties, there is nearly a one-to-one pitch accent / prosodic word distribution (e.g., in some Southern varieties). In the other extreme, a sparse pitch accentuation characterizes the Lisbon variety of EP with almost no IP-internal pitch accents. The examples below illustrate the kinds of variation in PAD found across varieties of Portuguese.
Further reading on PAD in Portuguese: Frota & Vigário 2000; Tenani 2002; Vigário & Frota 2003; Fernandes-Svartman 2007; Tenani & Fernandes-Svartman 2008; Vigário & Fernandes-Svartman 2010; Cruz & Frota 2013; Frota 2014; Frota et al. 2015; Frota & Moraes 2016.
Recent studies have found three main dimensions of variation across Portuguese varieties: the inventory of nuclear contours (i.e., with nuclear configurations varying in form and/or meaning), intonational phrasing (i.e., with varying phrasing preferences) and pitch accent distribution. The first two dimensions have already been touched upon in previous sections. This final section is thus devoted to pitch accent distribution (PAD).
PAD relates to the way pitch accents (and tonal events in general) are distributed within utterances, and this reflects the prosodic domain that regulates such distribution. In some Brazilian varieties, there is nearly a one-to-one pitch accent / prosodic word distribution (e.g., in some Southern varieties). In the other extreme, a sparse pitch accentuation characterizes the Lisbon variety of EP with almost no IP-internal pitch accents. The examples below illustrate the kinds of variation in PAD found across varieties of Portuguese.
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Further reading on PAD in Portuguese: Frota & Vigário 2000; Tenani 2002; Vigário & Frota 2003; Fernandes-Svartman 2007; Tenani & Fernandes-Svartman 2008; Vigário & Fernandes-Svartman 2010; Cruz & Frota 2013; Frota 2014; Frota et al. 2015; Frota & Moraes 2016.
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